Trump Storms Out of Carroll Defamation Trial, Angers Judge
- Ex-president leaves during Carroll lawyer’s closing arguments
- Carroll seeks millions in damages over his defamatory comments
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Just minutes after New York writer E. Jean Carroll’s lawyer started her closing arguments Friday in the defamation trial against Donald Trump, the former president abruptly got up and stalked out of the courtroom.
He left after Carroll’s lawyer told a jury that Trump continued to defame the former Elle magazine columnist and acted “as if the laws don’t apply to him.” The departure drew the ire of US District Judge Lewis Kaplan, who noted it for the record and ordered Trump’s lawyers to remain seated and not leave the courtroom.